Date Movie (2006)

Very well executed

Don't listen to the negative reviews

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Well at least date movie is better than some of the other parodies made by the same people that made this one. Epic movie and meet the Spartans were let's just face it, failures. And I'm not saying that this is a good movie because it's not but at least it's a little bit better than those. I actually liked the chemistry that the main couple in the movie had. I really liked them as single actors as well, The guy was cute and lovable and he was funny as well, and the girl was just really easy to like. Some of the gags were too crude and just kind of fell flat and it wasn't really a funny movie overall. I don't know I mean some scenes were actually kind of entertaining and a little bit amusing, but the scenes that weren't funny overpowered the scenes that were. I thought the comical orgasm scene from when Harry Met Sally was kind of clever, but other than that I mean the rest of the gags were just kind of worn. So that's why I'm giving this movie a five out of 10, I'm giving it a five for being better than other parody films I've seen, and because I liked the chemistry between the two main characters.

Listen here you little #@$%heads, Just because you think the writers made a bad movie doesn't me you should give them death threats. I would slap all of you but its unfortunate that I cannot. Friedberg and Seltzer are not perfect directors in any means, but I think they're movies are funny. VERY, VERY funny. Very few people are afraid to talk about movies like this because if they say they like it their opinion is silenced with death threats. Stop being ignorant you guys. This movie is not hilarious by any means but it is funny in some parts.Julia Jones is a overweight Greek, Indian, Japanese Jew who works at her parent's Greek restaurant. She meets the perfect man and becomes beautiful later on. They plan to get married but will her farther approve of this and will another woman get in the way? The Casting for this film was the start of casting the same people in all of their movies. Tony Cox, Adam Campbell and Carmen Electra are most of the people who show up in these kinds of movies.Friedberg and Seltzer prove that you don't need good jokes to make a good movie. You can have good and bad jokes as well to make a good movie. I love slapstick in these type of movies because they work so well. For me that is, because my taste in comedy is different then everyone Else's. One of my favorite jokes is the beginning of the film where Julia dances on the street to get a man but fails and falls flat.But the second half and third act of this film isn't quite that funny. Sure there is a laugh here and there but its not like there are so many at once. I guess they were being more serious with this movie then any of they're other parodies.Date Movie is not perfect by any means necessary. But it is funny for me. By the way, Im going to be reviewing all of their films. So you just stay tuned for the same stuff! 79/100 B

I hated this movie within about 30 seconds, but I gave it a chance. Alyson Hannigan was the only good thing in it, but her talents are wasted, as any woman could wear a fat suit and fall on face. I didn't make it all the way through the film, but I saw enough to know that there is nothing redeeming about it.A parody movie can be good if it has some originality and makes clever observations about the genre. Copying every scene from other films, with more exaggeration and grosser humour, does not make a good parody. Likewise, gross out humour in films can be funny (i.e American Pie, Bridesmaids, etc), but using it in every scene and overdoing it is not funny. It seemed that the writers were just trying to be as gross as possible, as that was the only was they could get a laugh. Overall, this movie took the movie references and grossness too far, and wasn't remotely clever or funny.

When "Airplane!" came out in late 1980, it set the standard for the spoof movie, a motion picture that parodies a whole genre of others. In "Airplane's" case, it was the disaster film. It made fun of the Airport pictures, as well as "The Posidon Adventure," "Earthquake," and "The High and the Mighty," among others.This comedy was followed in quick succession by "Spaceballs," "Amazon Women on the Moon" (which satirized sci-fi movies), the "Naked Gun" films, "Spy Hard," "Mafia" and "Repossessed" (all with Leslie Nielson), "Dracula: Dead and Loving It," "Robin Hood: Men in Tights," "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon I", and the 'Scary Movie" series.Many of these had their own special charm, although none has lived up to the dumb-but- hilarious high mark set by "Airplane!" (although Nielson's "Naked Gun" trio, based on the short-lived 1982 TV show, "Police Squad!," probably came the closest).The newest effort, however, "Date Movie" (a send-up of all of those romantic stories we love to hate), attempts to do to those tales what Dick Cheney did to Harry Whittington's face, pepper it with shotgun pellets without hitting anything vital.This film attempts to make fun of such modern work as "King Kong," "When Harry Met Sally," "Wedding Crashers," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," "Kill Bill," "Meet The Parents," "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "The Wedding Planner," "Bridget Jones's Diary," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith," "Hitch," "Napoleon Dynamite," and a whole slew of the hip black comedies seemingly being released every week. Unfortunately, all of these are much better movies than this one satirizing them.And while the scattergun approach has worked before, the multiple targets aimed at by "Date Movie" remain unscathed and the audience, for the most part, remains unmoved (by laughter, anyway).I tried my best just to smirk at some of the "jokes" here, but I could not even force myself. I've actually been to funnier executions. This movie makes France's Reign Of Terror seem like an episode of "Rocky & Bullwinkle." I've gotten bigger laughs with MY jokes, and my jokes stink.I think you get my point.The plot (what there is of it) has one of the most untalented individuals ever to appear before a camera (including Al Gore), Adam Campbell as Grant Fonckyerdodder (get it?!), a nebbish idiot who is wooing Julia Jones (Alyson Hannigan, "American Wedding," as well as a host of bad TV shows) and the supposed comic misadventures they go through meeting his folks, Jennifer and Fred (Jennifer Coolidge and Fred Willard, both veterans of the much funnier films, "Waiting For Guffman," "Best Of Show" and "A Mighty Wind").Meanwhile, Grant's beautiful ex-girlfriend, Andy (Sophie Monk), wants him back.Other embarrassed clowns passing themselves off as celebrities appear in this travesty, wondering around like doomed souls on the deck of the HMS Lusitania just before a German torpedo smashed into her cargo of illegal armaments. These include the poor man's Wayne Brady, Eddie Griffin (he played the pimp in the "Deuce Bigalow" pictures, in fact,he plays a pimp in EVERY movie he's ever been in, so you get an idea of what I'm talking about), Carmen Electra, Michael Brooks, Matt Austin and Michael Jackson impersonator, Edward Moss and, oh, who cares?It really doesn't matter one iota, anyway, you know.With Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer ("Scary Movie") sharing writing and directing chores (much like Loeb and Leopold shared in the killing of Bobby Franks – in fact, even Clarence Darrow wouldn't defend these directors), this will go down as nothing but a dull series of parodies that fails to parodize anything and does not even remotely approach the town of Humor.It just stops at Tedium, spends about 90 minutes (although it seems much longer) and ends. To be fair, I guess seeing a cat on the toilet, King Kong groping Electra or Griffin as a midget pimp (is that the only character this goof-ball can play?!) might make one laugh. Probably the same people who sneak into locker rooms to sniff gym socks or those who voted for Al Sharpton, but not anyone else.